If you don't like the weather here, just wait a few minutes

Mark Twain gave a speech here about weather in New England in 1876 in which he states:

"The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on the people to see how they will go."

He asserted that he counted 136 different kinds of weather in a 24 hour period. I believe we experienced about a little more than a dozen of them yesterday.

In order from about 9:30 am (when I woke up)

1. Cloudy and obviously cold.
   
2. Sunny and cold.
   
3. Drizzly.
   
4. Sunny again but the wind was clearly picking up.
   
5. Dark and breezy.
   
6. About 10 minutes of snow (I missed that but the good Dr. knows snow when he sees it).
   
7. Sunny. Then we had lunch.
8. After lunch it got cloudy.
   
9. About 20 minutes of sideways sleet and 20-30 mph winds.
   
10. Cloudy and windy.
    
11. Sunny and windy.
12. Rainy and windy.
13. Sunny and really windy.
14. Then it was time to go to bed (11:30 pm for me; the good Dr. was already in bed). At this time it was just shy of hurricane force winds and 20 degrees. You have to let the kitchen pipes drip so that they don't freeze when we have this kind of weather.
    

The wind kept up all night and into today. I was half expecting something to be blown into our second story window at some point. If a cow had blown into the window I'm not sure I would have been surprised. Today I was almost blown to the ground here at the university twice so far.

Mark Twain did say it best about the weather here:

"... one of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it. There is only one thing certain about it: you are certain there is going to be plenty of it ..."